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Court : Kolkata
Decided on : Mar-19-1896
Reported in : (1896)ILR23Cal610
Rampini, J.1. This rule was issued to show cause (1) why the proceedings now pending against the petitioner Raj Kumari before the Magistrate should not be quashed, upon the ground that on the facts disclosed in the opposite party's complaint the case does not fall within Section 499 of the Indian Penal Code, or (2) why the proceedings should not be stayed, until the decision of the suit now pending between the two parties in the Civil Court.2. The first of these grounds clearly fails, The complaint of the opposite party Bama Sundari undoubtedly charges the petitioner with conduct, which prima facie amounts to the offence of defamation. It charges the petitioner with having defamed the opposite party (1) by means of oral statements made to other persons; and (2) by having presented a petition to the District Registrar of Assurances, representing that a deed of release purporting to have been executed by her in favour of Bama Sundari was a forgery; and that Bam a Sundari had at the time ...
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